Laurel business, owner sentenced in contamination case

6:44 PM,
Feb. 27, 2014

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The owner-operator of a former electroplating business in Sussex County and the business itself were put on probation Thursday for illegal hazardous waste storage and disposal.

Patrick Henry Procino, 66, of Laurel, owner of Procino Plating Inc. at 901 S. Market St. in Blades, was sentenced to a year of probation, a $50,000 fine and a $100 court assessment for one count of illegal storage of hazardous waste without a permit.

The sentencing culminated a lengthy investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,the state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, ...